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1 [厄里亞退往曷勒布山]阿哈布將厄里亞所作的一切,以及他如何刀斬眾先知的事,全告訴了依則貝耳。
Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and that he had killed all the prophets of Baal with the sword.
2 依則貝耳就派使者去對厄里亞說:「明天這個時候,如果我不使你的性命如同那些先知一樣,願眾神明嚴厲,且加倍嚴厲地懲罰我! 」
Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods do as much to me and more if by tomorrow I haven't made your life like the lives of those you killed!”
3 厄里亞害了怕,遂起身逃命,到了猶大境內的貝爾舍巴,叫他的僕人留在那裏,
Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he arrived in Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there
4 自己卻進入曠野,走了一天的路,來到一棵杜松樹下,坐下來求死說:「上主啊! 現在已經夠了! 收去我的性命罷! 因為我並不如我的祖先好。」
and traveled another day's journey into the desert. He sat down under a broom tree and asked to die. “I've had enough now, Lord,” he said. “Take my life! I'm no better than my forefathers.”
5 以後,就躺在那棵杜松樹下,睡著了;忽然,有為天使拍醒他,對他說:「起來,吃罷! 」
He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree. All of a sudden an angel touched him and said, “Get up, and eat.”
6 他看了看,見頭旁有一塊用炭火烤熟的餅和一罐水;他吃了喝了,又躺下睡了。
He looked around, and there beside his head was some bread baking over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and lay down again.
7 上主的使者第二次又來拍醒他說:「起來,吃罷! 因為你還有一段很遠的路。」
The angel of the Lord returned a second time and touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.”
8 他就起來,吃了喝了,賴那食物的力量,走了四十天四十夜,一直到了天主的山曷勒布。天主顯現給厄里亞
So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength the food gave him he was able to walk forty days and forty nights to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.
9 他來到那裏,進了一個山洞,在那裏過夜;有上主的話傳於他說:「厄里亞,你在這裏做什麼﹖」
There he entered a cave and spent the night. The Lord spoke to Elijah, and asked him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
10 厄里亞答說:「我為上主萬軍的天主憂心如焚,因為以色列子民背棄了你的盟約,毀壞了你的祭壇,刀斬了你的先知,只剩下了我一個,他們還要奪取我的性命! 」
“I have worked passionately for the Lord God Almighty,” he replied. “But the Israelites have abandoned your agreement, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I am the only one who's left, and they are trying to kill me as well.”
11 上主吩咐他說:「你出來,站在山上,立在上主前面。」那時,上主正從那裏經過,在上主面前,暴風大作,裂山碎石,但是,上主卻不在風暴中;風以後有地震,但是上主亦不在地震中;
Then the Lord told him, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” Right then the Lord passed by. A tremendously powerful wind ripped into the mountains and smashed rocks before the Lord, but the Lord wasn't in the wind. After the wind there came an earthquake, but the Lord wasn't in the earthquake.
12 地震以後有烈火,但是上主仍不在火中;烈火以後,有輕微細弱的風聲。
After the earthquake there came a fire, but the Lord wasn't in the fire. And after the fire came a voice speaking in a gentle whisper.
13 厄里亞一聽見這聲音,即用外衣蒙住臉出來,站在洞口。遂有聲音對他說:「厄里亞,你在這裏做什麼﹖」
When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his cloak around his face and went out and stood at the cave entrance. Immediately a voice spoke to him and asked, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
14 他答說:「我為上主萬軍的天主憂心如焚,因為以色列子民背棄了你的盟約,毀壞了你的祭壇,刀斬了你的先知,只剩下了我一個,他們還要奪取我的性命! 」厄里亞奉命敷油
“I have worked passionately for the Lord God Almighty,” he replied. “But the Israelites have abandoned your agreement, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I am the only one who's left, and they are trying to kill me as well.”
15 上主對厄里亞說:「你回去,仍取道曠野,往大馬士革去,到了那裏,給哈匝耳敷油,立他為阿蘭王。
The Lord told him, “Go back the way you came to the desert of Damascus. When you get there, go and anoint Hazael king of Aram.
16 去給尼默史的孫子耶胡敷油,立他為以色列王;再去給阿耳貝默曷拉人沙法特的兒子厄里叟敷油,立他接替你為先知;
Also anoint Jehu, son of Nimshi, king of Israel and Elisha, son of Shaphat, from Abel-meholah, to take over from you as prophet.
17 將來躲過哈匝耳的刀的,必為耶胡所殺;躲過耶胡的刀的,必為厄里叟所殺。
Jehu will execute anyone who escapes the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will execute anyone who escapes the sword of Jehu.
18 然而,在以色列我要為我自己留下七千人;他們全是從未向巴耳屈過膝,未與巴耳親過嘴的人。」厄里叟蒙召
I still have seven thousand left in Israel, all those who have not bowed their knees to worship and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
19 厄里亞於是從那裏起身,去找沙法特的兒子厄里叟。他正在耕田,在他面前有十二對牛,他自己趕著地十二對;厄里亞走過他身邊,將自己的外衣披在他身上。
So Elijah left, and went and found Elisha, son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen, and he was with the twelfth pair. Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak around him.
20 厄里叟? 披在的父母吻別,然後來跟隨你。」厄里亞對他說:「你去罷! 要再回來! 因為我應為你作的,已經作了。」
Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me go and kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on home,” Elijah replied. “I've never done anything for you.”
21 厄里叟離開了厄里亞,回來牽出一對牛宰殺了,用駕馭牛的用具煮熟,分給眾人吃;然後他便起身跟隨厄里亞,作了他的侍從。
Elisha left him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. Using the wood of the oxen's yoke as fuel, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate it. Then he left to follow and serve Elijah.

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